2019 The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
"... In 'The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman', committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes the reader on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up to elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring.... across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafés.
Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries thet make Flanders a place where CYCLING IS A RELIGION and the riders its lycra-clad priests."
(excerpt of the back cover of "The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman", by Harry Pearson, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2019)
2019 The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
"... In 'The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman', committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes the reader on a journey across Flanders, through the lumpy horizontal rain, up to elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines, as he follows races big, small and even smaller through one glorious, muddy spring.... across windswept polders, along back roads and through an awful lot of beer cafés.
Pearson examines the characters, the myths and rivalries thet make Flanders a place where CYCLING IS A RELIGION and the riders its lycra-clad priests."
(excerpt of the back cover of "The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman", by Harry Pearson, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2019)